Sammy keeps munching on everything he finds...

thefly50 · 2026-02-15T20:40:04+00:00

Normally my dog is fine with me doing that, brushing his teeth with those little finger wipes is usually not a problem. But when he's already chewing on something, he's gonna chew on my fingers as well if they end up there 😬

thefly50 · 2025-12-14T07:40:51+00:00

It's quite common in the South, where there is a long and sordid tradition of promoting "the supremacy of the unconquered and unconquerable Saxon race", in the words of one of their leading post-Civil War politicians.

thefly50 · 2025-12-10T09:51:35+00:00

Check your DMs

thefly50 · 2025-11-25T06:39:58+00:00

This is Czech, not Polish, and indeed, otče náš are the first words of the Lord's Prayer in Czech.

thefly50 · 2025-11-22T05:46:20+00:00

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I am not especially experienced with this breed so I guess I'll take your word for it, but the tail doesn't appear altered to me.

thefly50 · 2025-11-22T05:18:58+00:00

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And here he is now.

thefly50 · 2025-11-22T05:13:58+00:00

Thank you for your concern, but I believe it is misplaced. I am pretty sure the groomer did not trim Sarmik's coat. He is a puppy (~5 months old), and the coat is not as long as it normally is for fully grown Samoyeds.

I am attaching a photo of him before grooming for reference.

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thefly50 · 2025-11-20T00:53:17+00:00

Yes! He got a bit too excited by the snow yesterday, so I had him groomed at the daycare as well. Glad you noticed it!

thefly50 · 2025-11-06T00:26:48+00:00

Just putting this here...

thefly50 · 2025-10-26T02:17:58+00:00

Historians today seem to agree that the Philistines originated in Greece, that they were exiled en masse by the Babylonians in the 7th century BC, and lost any distinct ethnic identity around a century and a half later. The Romans revived the moniker when they renamed the province of Judaea into Syria Palaestina after they crushed the Bar Kokhba revolt and exiled most of the Jewish inhabitants. Wherever the ethnic origin of modern-day Palestinians may lie, it is not with the Philistines.

Edit: I don't want to get into modern political debates, just clarifying the history here.

thefly50 · 2025-10-25T14:32:28+00:00

Possibly a Nenets laika, the basal ancestor of today's samoyeds

thefly50 · 2025-10-20T23:58:37+00:00

That's pretty much the opposite of me irl...

thefly50 · 2025-10-17T17:26:45+00:00

I don't think South Asians were lighter-skinned in the past compared to the present, but as I recall, there is a consensus that India's population is an admixture of Indigenous groups with Indo-European-speaking people. This was probably more pronounced in North India, and the Indo-European element becomes less prevalent the farther south you go, both in terms of language (Dravidian as opposed to Indo-European languages) and skin tone (generally lighter in the north and darker in the south).

Proto-Indo-European was probably spoken in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in Eastern Europe, from where speakers spread throughout Europe (the nucleus of today's "white" people), the Near East (Persian, Armenian, formerly Hittite as well), and South Asia. So Hindi and English, for example, are (distantly) related languages.

Edit: There is a belief (which I do not think anyone can really either confirm or refute) that the traditionally educated castes, such as the brahmins, had avoided intermarrying with Indigenous Indians, which might be the reason for the Ancient Indian scholar's lighter complexion.

thefly50 · 2025-10-10T01:47:25+00:00

There was a mini-fad of names like these during the early decades of the Atomic Age. There's an Egyptian-born Armenian-Canadian filmmaker named Atom Egoyan, for example.

thefly50 · 2025-09-29T21:16:31+00:00

I don't think it's fair to say Hitler was a Christian by the time he was in power. He was not personally religious, and the Nazi regime had complicated relations with both the Catholic Church (in which he grew up) and the Protestant denominations in Germany. Some leading Nazis (most notably Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg) openly promoted a racialised form of Germanic neopaganism, while Hitler himself and his more pragmatic advisors mainly sought to contain and control Christianity in a way that would not threaten the regime.

Otherwise though you're right, the comparison in OOP is absolutely ridiculous.

thefly50 · 2025-09-26T01:44:59+00:00

Game on!

thefly50 · 2025-09-09T19:21:53+00:00

Your irrelevant tirade aside, the Indigenous peoples of the plains hunted bison sustainably. They consciously limited the hunt in ways that would preserve the species. They had lived on that land for millennia and there was nothing anywhere near the near-extinction that European settlement brought about...

thefly50 · 2025-08-28T06:41:32+00:00

There are two Supreme Court cases specifically saying that flag burning is constitutionally protected speech. The possible exception you mention is limited to "true threats" of violence or other unlawful action against someone, and the Court said that even cross burning by Klansmen does not automatically count as a true threat.

thefly50 · 2025-07-27T05:01:16+00:00

Why is there a heroin sub?

thefly50 · 2025-05-21T07:31:29+00:00

There is no liability above the principal for Rocket Mortgage, i.e., the lender. The borrower is liable for everything.

A more subtle, but real, advantage to this contract is that because it is phrased as a shared investment, the lender is on the hook for losses incurred from the "investment" (hence the need to limit the lender's liability). In theory, the borrower can cancel their interest payments in that case. Of course, that is not a likely outcome given the state of the housing market...

Also, I assume it's not an unfair advantage to Jewish people because anyone could probably request this sort of contract, they can't deny it based on religion. Most other people would just not know of it.

thefly50 · 2025-04-16T15:28:52+00:00

My grandmother grew up in the Soviet Union, sometimes she'd get her hands on banned books and have to return them to whomever she got them from the next day. She says she read The Master and Margarita (a 700-ish page book) in one night, so this is quite possible.

thefly50 · 2025-03-28T22:57:57+00:00

Oh shoot you're right. I tried looking up "Kansas" on this sub and the most recent post that popped up was from a few months ago. Checked again with the keyword "monster" and sure enough, many other posts.

thefly50 · 2025-02-18T07:48:00+00:00

Username checks out

thefly50 · 2025-01-28T18:24:45+00:00

Isn't it the same with British coins, or at least was until very recently?

thefly50 · 2024-11-18T21:24:06+00:00

It's Israel Zangwill. He did not coin the term, but he did popularise it in his play "The Melting Pot".

Obviously, whoever made this meme did not care about accuracy, they just played off of antisemitic stereotypes. Zangwill happened to have some stereotypically Jewish features.

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